Discovering Our Past: Medieval and Early Modern Times

Chapter 11: The Age of Enlightenment

Self-Check Quiz

1
Europeans accepted Ptolemy's geocentric theory for more than 1,400 years. What area of science did the theory impact?
A)mathematics
B)astronomy
C)medicine
D)philosophy
2
__________ was the greatest thinker of the Enlightenment.
A)Voltaire
B)Montesquieu
C)John Locke
D)Thomas Hobbes
3
__________ was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
A)Quebec
B)Jamestown
C)Charles Town
D)Boston
4
A group of Puritans called Pilgrims left England in search of __________.
A)wealth
B)gold
C)happiness
D)religious freedom
5
Christian thinker __________ tried to show that Christianity and reason had a place with each other in European universities that were being built in the 1100s.
A)Thomas Aquinas
B)Nicolaus Copernicus
C)Johannes Kepler
D)Isaac Newton
6
__________, through his use of a microscope, discovered the smallest structures of living material.
A)Francis Bacon
B)Rene Descartes
C)Robert Hooke
D)Charles Town
7
What event became known as the "Glorious Revolution"?
A)execution of Charles I
B)Mary and William ascending the throne in England
C)Jean-Jacques Rousseau's criticism of the Enlightenment
D)Mary Wollstonecraft's movement for women's rights
8
Whose 28-volume encyclopedia included topics such as science, religion, government, and the arts?
A)Mary Wollstonecraft
B)Denis Diderot
C)Voltaire
D)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9
__________ criticized Enlightenment ideas claiming that advocates relied too much on reason.
A)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B)Voltaire
C)Denis Diderot
D)Mary Wollstonecraft
10
Arguing that all humans have reason, __________ believed that women should have the same rights as men.
A)Denis Diderot
B)Voltaire
C)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D)Mary Wollstonecraft
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